Complete in two volumes. With Nikud (vowel-points)

Estimate

$7,000–$9,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(BIBLE. Hebrew)

printer

Robert Estienne the Elder

Place

Paris

Publication

1539-44

Description

Minor Prophets with commentary by David Kimchi (RaDa”K). Good wide-margined (mixed) set. First vol. extensively annotated in an early hand. Second vol. The Moses Gaster copy

references

Darlow & Moule 5089; Adams B-1221; Vinograd, Paris 16

summary

“Robert Estienne [was] the most outstanding figure in the Renaissance booktrade in France. As a printer...he occupies today a chief place in the history of typography, and it is to him primarily that the Estienne dynasty owes its reputation in this field.” F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, An Annotated Catalogue (1982) p.45. In June 1539, Robert Estienne was appointed Royal Printer and Bookseller in Hebrew and Latin. He immediately commissioned Jehan Arnoul to cut a new Hebrew type in preparation for the printing of this famous quarto Hebrew Bible, an edition renowned for it’s typographic artistry

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